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A Nation Like All Others - A close-up

For those whose eyes are caught by the book’s cover, I would urge them to read the preface (2 pages) and “Last Thoughts” (5 pages). Those few pages will tell...

Warren I. Cohen

Overthrowing the Queen - A close-up

For a book that touts the power of storytelling, I would be remiss not to recommend that casual readers flip to pages of aid recipients telling stories from their own...

Tom Mould

Animals as Persons - In a nutshell

For most of us, the central issue of animal ethics is our treatment of animals. We believe that animals have some moral value but that we are morally justified in...

Gary L. Francione

The Death of the American Trial - In a nutshell

Despite what TV dramas may suggest, the American trial has become an endangered species. In 2002, less than 2 percent of civil cases ended at trial, down from 12 percent...

Robert P. Burns

Why We Disagree About Climate Change - In a nutshell

Why We Disagree About Climate Change is about the idea of climate change—where it came from, what it means to different people in different places and why we disagree about...

Mike Hulme

Fantasies of Neglect - A close-up

The chapter with the most sidewalk appeal is probably Chapter Two, “Shirley Temple as Streetwalker.” I argue that film starring Shirley Temple and Jane Withers, the Little Orphan Annie Comic...

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

The Last Utopia - In a nutshell

The Last Utopia assesses how deeply rooted in history the notion of “international human rights” is.I have long been fascinated by this question since human rights—together with the advocacy and...

Samuel Moyn

The Rise of Climate Science - A close-up

The book is full of stories connected with each of these segments of my life. I hope different browsers will first look at the table of contents, then open to...

Gerald R. North

The Urban Spectator - A close-up

Chapter 7, on the topic of the database city, is probably my favorite chapter. In it, I examine the development in Hollywood, California known as Hollywood and Highland. This urban...

Eric Gordon

Mystery of the Night Café - The wide angle

Mystery of the Night Café not only seeks to solve the mystery of Van Gogh’s deepest sense of life, a sense that has attracted many around the globe, but it...

Cliff Edwards

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - In a nutshell

Boulevard of Broken Dreams is the first extensive look at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents.I examine the public strategies used to advance...

Josh Lerner

The Scandal of Reason - In a nutshell

This book defends the duty of judgment and the freedom to err. Against the modernist ambition to discover truth by the power of reason, and post-modernist flagellation of both truth...

Albena Azmanova

Radical Thinking - In a nutshell

Radical Thinking is a book about how we make sense of the world, and how we can make more sense of it. But it’s not a typical ‘critical thinking’ book. It’s ‘radical’ (from the Latin radic, meaning ‘root’) because it’s about the roots - the foundations - of what we think. In other words, it’s about the things that shape our thoughts...

Peter Lamont

When the State Meets the Street - A close-up

As a work of political theory, When the State Meets the Street is unusual in that it combines normative reasoning with ethnographic fieldwork. Political theory is often criticized for operating...

Bernardo Zacka

The Man in the Dog Park - The wide angle

This book offers intimate, personal stories, but they are connected to a wider trajectory of our country over the last sixty years. My own coming of age in the 1960s...

Cathy A. Small

Casualties of Credit - A close-up

While chapter four, dealing with the debates surrounding the use of the death penalty for counterfeiting crimes, offers some revealing examples of how contemporaries understood money politically, I would steer...

Carl Wennerlind

Foretelling the End of Capitalism - A close-up

The first part of the book tells a story of disappointments with our ability to forecast the future of capitalism. This story unfolds in several stages: the Victorian era (Chapter...

Francesco Boldizzoni

Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting - The wide angle

My interest in the sounds of historical voices grew out of my earlier research on masculinity in the nineteenth century. Rooting through the archives of schools, military barracks and legislative...

Josephine Hoegaerts

All the Missing Souls - A close-up

Pages 2 through 5 state what the book is about, its objectives, the historical significance of the story, and my role in it. Allow me to stitch together some of...

David Scheffer

Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas - The wide angle

The book relates primarily to theories and practices of postmodernism and globalization, two of the most central intellectual trends of the last few decades. The book shows how the arrival...

Yaron Peleg

The Angel in the Marketplace - In a nutshell

The Angel in the Marketplace is a biography of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a mid-century adwoman widely recognized on Madison Avenue for her success in marketing household products to American housewives,...

Ellen Wayland-Smith

Unending Capitalism - A close-up

My book invites readers to contemplate the larger significance of easily overlooked mass produced things. If they were to skim the book, they would encounter dozens of photos and illustrations...

Karl Gerth

Stalking Nabokov - In a nutshell

Stalking Nabokovfocuses always on Vladimir Nabokov and occasionally also on me in persistent pursuit, wielding a variety of nets, in different seasons and terrains, panting with effort while he flutters...

Brian Boyd

Jazz Icons - The wide angle

I came to this subject through an earlier project concerning business complicity under National Socialism.Companies such as Siemens (electronics), Krupp (steel), and the automotive firms BMW, Volkswagen, and Daimler Benz,...

Tony Whyton

Academically Adrift - A close-up

In recent years, many colleges and universities have been encouraging students to work in groups as a way to accomplish simultaneously two goals that were seen to be complementary. College...

Richard Arum

The Procrastination Economy - In a nutshell

People check their mobile phones over 80 times every day, and while that frequency may alarm us as we survey a crowd of people hunched over their phones, it is...

Ethan Tussey

The Rape of Mesopotamia - A close-up

One of the most poignant moments in The Rape of Mesopotamia comes when John Limbert, a diplomat and former Iranian hostage, was ordered to Baghdad by Colin Powell in the...

Lawrence Rothfield

Indoor America - A close-up

p>To those who do not have the time to peruse the book from cover to cover, I would recommend reading chapter five, which looks at windows and glass architecture in...

Andrea Vesentini

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent - A close-up

I’m intrigued about the implications of the Snake Detection theory for human behavior, and, in the epilogue, I write most directly about humans.Have you ever wondered about our ability to...

Lynne A. Isbell

Cinema in an Age of Terror - The wide angle

I became interested in this topic because of previous research I had done on postcolonial theory. The book engages deeply with postcolonial theory and the interest in that discipline in...

Michael F. O’Riley

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